Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Walkersville, Md., hope to buy a rolling farm field for a worship center and annual convention site. But many in this small town of unpainted barns and church suppers are "troubled by foreigners" and suspicious of Muslims in particular.

Flood watches and warnings were posted across the Northeast as water from heavy rain and melting snow poured into streams and rivers. Flood watches and warnings were also up in parts of the Southeast where heavy rain fell Friday and Saturday.

Halloween is the second-largest decorating holiday after the Christmas and Hanukkah season. Small businesses and big discounters are selling high-tech wizardry such as voice-activated skeletons, smog machines and downright gory bleeding goblins.